When it comes to historic estates in Prince George's County, the name Oxon Hill doesn't exactly have that aristocratic ring. Shortened from "Oxford on the Hill" by plantation owners in the colonial era, the name is more likely to conjure up images of an ox on a hill than the countryside around Oxford, England, that the land was said to resemble.

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